The new study that was carried out by a group of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco has revealed that depressive symptom and various other characteristics in a woman is often inherited from her mother.

According to research, the corticolimbic system of brain, which helps in regulating our emotions and is related to the revelation of depressive symptom in a person-, is most likely to be passed on to a daughter from the mother rather than mother to the son.

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